Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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